What s our role as the worship team?

What s our role as the worship team?

What s our role as the worship team? We create an environment that encourages people to worship.

you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9: (NLT)

What s our role as the worship team? Priests worship God and help others worship God.

Put the Levites in charge of the Tabernacle of the Covenant, along with all its furnishings and equipment. They must carry the Tabernacle and all its furnishings as you travel, and they must take care of it and camp around it. Numbers 1 (NLT)

What s our role as the worship team? The Levites were essentially setting up the place where God and man would meet.

What s our role as the worship team? We create a space for God and his gathered people to meet.

What s our role as the worship team? You help steward the meeting place between your congregation and God.

What s our role as the worship team? When we come together as a local church, we help and encourage the congregation to worship God by setting the right environment.

What s our role as the worship team? As priests, we help create an environment for God and man to meet, and we do this

What s our role as the worship team? We are worshiping God. We are leading the congregation.

What s our role as the worship team? A word that is often translated into worship in scripture is the Greek word Latreuo. And it means ministering to God.

What s our role as the worship team? We think of ministering as "attending to the needs of someone.

What s our role as the worship team? He desires us, his people to do what they were created to do enjoy him and his presence.

What s our role as the worship team? He desires us, his people to do what they were created to do enjoy him and his presence.

What s our role as the worship team? So when we are serving on the platform, we are seeking to enjoy Him, and help others enjoy Him.

How are we worshiping on the platform? Through singing, physical expression, and/or playing a musical instrument.

How are we worshiping on the platform? We re also worshiping God by serving.

How are we worshiping on the platform? We re worshiping God, but also are there to encourage the congregation to worship.

How are we worshiping on the platform? We re worshiping God, but also are there to encourage the congregation to worship. We can t forget the dual role that we play.

Because we re leading the congregation We choose to worship, even if we don t feel like it.

Because we re leading the congregation We choose to worship, even if we don t feel like it.

Because we re leading the congregation We choose to worship, even if we don t feel like it. That doesn t mean it s act of pretending. It just means it s an act of our will.

Because we re leading the congregation We must submit our personal worship preferences for the sake of ministering to the gathered congregation.

Because we re leading the congregation At times, our personal worship expressions might distract from the corporate worship experience.

Because we re leading the congregation Even if you re not the upfront, main worship leader, you still have some responsibility to engage the congregation.

Because we re leading the congregation What s distracting in your church would be perfectly acceptable in another.

Here are some other ways we lead the congregation We model and encourage worship.

Here are some other ways we lead the congregation We model and encourage worship. We go first.

Here are some other ways we lead the congregation As we model what appropriate worship expression looks like, we invite others to worship with us.

Here are some other ways we lead the congregation We prepare to do lead the congregation with confidence.

Here are some other ways we lead the congregation We can t invite others to a place we re not prepared to go to.

Here are some other ways we lead the congregation We accept and lead from the authority delegated to us.

Here are some other ways we lead the congregation We also have authority as the children of God.

Recap We are New Testament priests: We create a space for God and his gathered people to meet.

Recap You help steward the meeting place between your congregation and God.

Recap We minister and serve both God and the congregation.

Recap We need to lead with the confidence that comes from being prepare AND knowing our authority that we ve been given.

Recap We model worship by going first.

Recap We need to lay aside our personal preferences in order to lead the congregation.